A state is defined as a community of people occupying a definite territory with its own government that the people obey. It has three main elements - people, territory, and government. The people are the population living within the state's demarcated territory. The government is the agency that formulates, expresses, and carries out the will of the state and has sovereignty, or supreme power over the people in its territory as well as freedom from external control by other states.

1. Concepts of State and Government

2. Meaning of State

5. People The mass of the population living within the state.

9. terrestrial, fluvial, maritime and aerial

11. Sovereignty May be defined as the supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience to its will from the people within its jurisdiction and corollarily to have freedom from foreign control.

12. “Sovereignty” Internal – power of the state to rule within its territory b. External– the freedom of the state to carry out its activities without subjection to or control by other states.

13. Prepared by: Valera, Mary Grace T. BSIT-41A